Robert Z. Cashman wrote: I'll be the first one to cry foul once someone does something wrong with the patent system, but as things stand, I have to object to the tone of your calling IV a "patent vacuum" along with any implications of wrongdoing just because they had a strong part in the Transmeta transaction. Transmeta ha...

Ross Cooney wrote: Buying servers is capital intensive...and impossible for startups. Buying capacity from AWS is expensive in the long term, but for the startup phase it is very beneficial. We provide an email filtering service to SMB's through a group of resellers and xSP partners. We released the service a year ag...

Nick Kelly wrote: Interesting article from a oracle ERP developers point of view I note that you could decide to write a saas application with open source technology eg Linux operating system, Postgresql database and a scripting langauge rendering html pages. The weak point is still the same and that is creating a bu...

Bíró Tamás wrote: Great article. I hope many enterprise customers read it. My comment is that the term open source, is too generic. This mistake is often made by many people. Open source software can be quite different, first, they can be low level as OS-es, databases; they can be lightweight like libraries or co...

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Transmeta, the uppity microprocessor wannabe that pushed Intel to create low-power chips before Inte...